Patea & Waverley Press MONDAY, OCTOBER 3rd, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Patea Mail, Volume XLV, 3 October 1921, Page 2

Patea & Waverley Press MONDAY, OCTOBER 3rd, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ring telephone No. 11l for plumbing and tinsmithing repairs. D. Jones, Bgmont Street, Phtca. Last year the Audit Department charged local bodies £2 Ss per day for auditing. 'This year the charge is £3 3s per day. The New Zealand Croquet Championships will be played on the Manawatu Club’s lawns in Fitzherbert .Street, Palmerston North, in January next. A gentleman in a position to hnow told a Manawatu Times reporter that the cost of building a house to-dav is about £l5O to £2OO less than it was two months ago. A large item in this respect has been the decrease in the cost of plumbing and painting. in another few months a much greater decline in the cost is to be expected.

The prizes offered for competition at the Bisley ride shooting meeting did not impress Rifleman 10. 10. Vonnell, of the Te Wharau .Ride Club. The" first prize for the ‘‘King's - ' was £250, and the runner-tip who might be only :L point behind only received £2."i. The third man received £lO and there were a few at £5 each, and the balance wore not above £2 each. In other matches the prize money was very low in compari-

Ritleman E. E. Vennoll. Xew Zealand King’s prizeman, who recently returned form Bisley where he took part in the competitions, said that every man who competes at the meeting is provided with a liable informing him of the target he is to shoot at. as well as the range and time of shooting. The meih. od is an excellent one. but it would be impossible, he stated, to adopt it in Now Zealand, on account of the expense that would be incurred, as the register keepers would have to be paid.

Some iat cresting and amusing carni. vai notes by Mi’ Dooley (tlic best that have yet appeared) arc held over until Wednesday's issue through laeh oi space.

Local bowlers arc asked to note that the club has received an invitation to he present at the opening of the Hawera green on Wednesday next, sth Last.

A Masonic service was he; 1 in St. Mary's Church, Wellington, recently It was conducted by the \ w iv, Lev. C. F. Askew. The lesons were road by Most Worshipful Brother H. /. W:. Hams and Eight Worshipful Bro. •!. .1. Esson. A collection was take.-a on bchalf of the Masonic Memorial to Masons fallen in the war, in the projected military chapel or cathedral.

Messrs Cheesman and Menhenneti. electrical engineers wish to notify the public of this district that they have been appointdc local agents for the famous Euston-Hornsby motor cars which they are offering at American prices. ‘This firm are also agents for the “Nauklvel" lighting plant —a system particularly suitable for the lighting of country homos, and running milking machines and circular saws as well. Full particulars can be obtained from the iim on application.

Two striking instances of the value of the fruit industry in circulating money were mentioned at the local bodies’ conference at Nelson by the chairman (Mr A. Gilbert.) He stated that where previously a man ran ibO slice]' on a certain area of laud, he now received a gross return of £SOOO a year ns Tm result of converting die land into an orchard. In another cane a 15-acrc block which produced about £SO or £OO of oals or 'barley, now gave a gross return of £2OOO as an orchard. Host o’ the money, it was pointed out, was cit•.o'atod in the (list riel. Residents of this district who have 'xposed gardens and want shelter on their farms should attend to the planting at once. I’inus Muricata bcig the 11 -st salt wind resisting [line should be planted. In the mure sheltered gullies Eucalyptus, timber varieties, should be planted at the rate of at least an acre a year. This in .ton years time will supply the farmer v, ith all his posts, firewood, and at twenty years, building material. Messrs Duncan and Davies. Ltd., New Plymouth, are now offering special lines of these for a few weeks only.

The following' is culled from a recent issue of the London Daily Mail: — “Mr W. T. Jennings, a. New Zealand Labour M.P., who lost two sons in the war, has arrived in London. He broke the journey at Gallipioli and laid a wreath ot artificial llowers on the grave of his eldest sou, who was killed in action there. On reaching London he placed a wreath on the Unknown Warrior's grave in Westminster Abbey. He is going to Ireland to [dace a third wreath on, the grave of his second son who died in hospital there from wounds received during the war. The wreaths were 1 presented to him by public subscription on leaving Auckland, that for the Unknown Warrior's grave being tribute from the people of New Zealand.

The Hon. G. J. Anderson, Minister of Labour mill Mines, who was absent from liis seat' in the House of Kepresontatives when the session opened last week, is still in a private hospital whore he has boon making; progress. He has been ablce to attend to some of the business of his departments. It is understood that ''hen Mr Massey returns there will bo ,a readjustment of portfolios, and that Sir William Homes who is at "present a Minister without portfolio, will take over some administrative work. Mr Anderson may be able to lake his seat in the House before many weeks have passed, but he will not Ito able to undertake active work this session.

A small boy whilst sea veiling tinder the floor of the Manchester Unity Hall in Dannevirke for bottles, got rather a surprise -when he unearthed two eases of blasting powder, aggregating s<llbs weight. The powder was discovered buried in a hole and was in excellent condition. The boys-’ parents immediately convoyed the information to the police, who consider that the •'Mind’’ had been there for three or four years and discredit any theory as to it having been connected with a plot to destroy the building. 'The cases boar the letters ‘‘D.U.A.” which offer the suggestion that they might have formed part of the stock of the old Dannevirke Co-operative Association, and were probably removed by some unauthorised person during the fire in I'.HJ, and placed under 'the building for safety. Xo fuses or any tiling of the kind were found with the powder.

An earnest conviction that the resources of the Fijian Islands can lie profitably exploited by the i reporting of Chinese labour was cxine-sed by a recent visitor from Suva. Cheap labour was essential, he said, and as the Indian coolie had now become such an unreliable factor it was desirable that planters have two strings to their bow. The unreliability of the Indian lay in his .fanatical tendencies and the fact that his was an all too ready nature for the reception of, poisoning propaganda. Indicative of this was the cancelling of the Chonali two months ago, this boat having been chartered to sail with bbo labourers from Calcutta. and the visitor was inclined to believe that this had been occasioned by the ‘•martyrdom’’ of an agitator who had been '‘exported’’ from Fiji, and had lain in the streets of Calcutta ns a protest of she wrong dune him. The Chinese was -a more complacent individual and the planters of Fiji could easily absorb 2000. Unless the labour supply improved in the near future there would be a serious falling off in the sugar crops next season.